Bill Text: NY J01009 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Memorializing Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim April 29, 2019, as a Day of Remembrance in the State of New York for all victims of Chemical Warfare

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Passed) 2019-04-09 - ADOPTED [J01009 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-J01009-Introduced.html

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Senate Resolution No. 1009

BY: Senator PERSAUD

        MEMORIALIZING Governor Andrew M. Cuomo to proclaim
        April 29, 2019, as a Day of Remembrance in the State
        of New York for all victims of Chemical Warfare

  WHEREAS,  A  Day of Remembrance has been set aside for the people of
the State of New York to remember the victims  of  chemical  warfare  as
well as to reflect on the need for respect of all people; and

  WHEREAS,  This  Day of Remembrance comes after more than one hundred
years since chemical weapons were first used on  a  large  scale  during
World War I in Iper, Belgium; and

  WHEREAS,  Chemical  weapons  have  cast  a dark shadow over the 20th
Century, claiming countless victims, both civilians and soldiers  across
the  globe;  each  year  we  gather  to honor the memory of all of those
victims; and

  WHEREAS, This Act of Remembrance re-commits us to  never  allow  any
person  to  fall victim, to never hear that lives have been blighted, to
never see the fear on the victims faces that has been  affected  by  the
use of chemical weapons; and

  WHEREAS,  Since  the  Chemical  Weapons  Convention  in 1993, it has
quickly encompassed 190 States, eliminating 87% of the world's  declared
stockpiles of chemical weapons; and

  WHEREAS,  On this Remembrance Day, we renew our resolve to achieve a
world truly free of chemical weapons by rededicating  ourselves  to  the
mission,  with  the  will  that  fueled  the  creation of the global ban
against these weapons; and

  WHEREAS, This Legislative Body should always remember  the  terrible
events  of the fateful day in April of 1915, where the birth of chemical
warfare occurred, and remain vigilant against such destructive  weapons;
and

  WHEREAS,  In  addition,  all  New Yorkers should actively rededicate
ourselves to the principles of a civil and just  society,  to  secure  a
future  that  will  never  again experience these weapons by protecting,
strengthening and extending the norm enshrined by the  Chemical  Weapons
Convention; and

  WHEREAS,  This  Day  of  Remembrance  for  all  Victims  of Chemical
Warfare, will be a reminder to all citizens of the destruction  chemical
weapons  has  left  on  our  society,  State,  Nation,  and  world; now,
therefore, be it

  RESOLVED, That this Legislative Body pause in its  deliberations  to
memorialize  Governor  Andrew  M. Cuomo to proclaim April 29, 2019, as a
Day of Remembrance in the State of New York, in honor of the victims  of
chemical  warfare,  and to resolve to diligently work to prevent the use
of chemical weapons from every happening again; and be it further

  RESOLVED, That a copy of this  Resolution,  suitably  engrossed,  be
transmitted  to  The Honorable Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of the State of
New York.